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Item Number: 130334
Title: Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon
Author: Gschwend, Annemarie Jordan ; Kate Lowe ; Jeremy Warren (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780900785498
Description: London: Wallace Collection, Holberton, 2014. 28cm., pbk., 240pp., 150 color illus. Summary: Accompanying the first exhibition in Britain to focus on 16th-century Portugal, this publication celebrates Renaissance Lisbon’s position as a truly ‘global city’, highlighting the cross-cultural influences between Lisbon, Africa, Asia and the Far East, and offering intriguing new insights into daily life in this culturally diverse and cosmopolitan city. New findings from archival research in Portugal will be presented for the first time in this volume. 19 essays by leading scholars (see details overleaf) will be illustrated with a stunning selection of the types of luxury objects which could be bought on the Rua Nova – including ivories, rock crystal carvings and silver, from the Wallace Collection and on loan from leading collections in the United Kingdom and Portugal. A highlight will be one of the Wallace Collection’s great treasures, the moving rock crystal figure of Christ as the Good Shepherd, carved in Ceylon and exquisitely embellished with gold and gem mounts, probably in Goa. This stunning object exemplifies both the quality of objects made for the luxury European market and how closely bound East and West were culturally and commercially, even at this early date in our modern history. Two of the most illuminating objects in the exhibition, the rarely seen late 16th-century paintings of the Rua Nova from Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire (collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London), are the only detailed early depictions of the street to have survived and are one of the most important art historical discoveries for Portugal to have been made in recent decades. With their wealth of fascinating detail – from traders, black and white, from all parts of the known world, down to a vignette of a dog killing an American turkey – the paintings give us an unparalleled view of this lost street, reduced to rubble in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. (^Available late 2014, details tentative^)
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